I AM AMERICA
By Uriah J. Fields
I am America ...
America, beautiful and majestic,
America, the land that I love and
stand ever ready to defend.
I am America ... A-M-E-R-I-C-A ...
A is for accountability to myself,
others and God,
M is for music, the most powerful
sound produced by the soul,
E is for enlightenment, knowlege and
wisdom, the essence of potential,
R is for responsibility, personal and
social in all that I am and all that I do,
I is for integrity expressed while standing
inviolate of my endowed divinity.
C is for Compassion, the empathy
extended to everyone great and small,
A stands for ah that characterizes the
experience of being America.
Now you can see I am America.
He who sees me sees America,
A-M-E-R-I-C-A.
America's hands are my hands,
America's feet are my feet,
America's eyes are my eyes
America's ears are my ears,
America's soul is my soul,
America's story is my story,
And I will tell it wherever I am.
I am America, proud, yet humble,
I am America, rich, yet possessor
of few material possessions,
I am America, courageous, yet
caring even while daring,
I am America, strong, yet ever
mindful that "But for the grace
of God, so go I."
America! America! I am America!
Copyright 2010 by Uriah J. Fields